Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Specific detail of information handling portion of system – Radiation beam modification of or by storage medium
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-31
2006-01-31
Tran, Thang V. (Department: 2653)
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Specific detail of information handling portion of system
Radiation beam modification of or by storage medium
C369S044230, C369S044320
Reexamination Certificate
active
06992966
ABSTRACT:
An optical pickup device including a light source, an objective lens for converging a light beam emitted from the light source at a signal recording surface of an optical recording medium and irradiating the signal recording surface of the optical recording medium with the light beam, and a liquid crystal device, disposed in a light path between the light source and the objective lens, for giving a predetermined phase distribution to transmission light that passes through the liquid crystal device, with both front and back surfaces of the liquid crystal device being flat surfaces. In the optical pickup device, the liquid crystal device is constructed by sandwiching a liquid crystal molecule layer by a pair of transparent substrate. In addition, a liquid-crystal-molecule-layer-sandwiching-side surface of each transparent substrate has a shape that is formed when a thickness distribution of the liquid crystal molecule layer is similar to a phase distribution that is produced when a predetermined aberration occurs.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5416757 (1995-05-01), Luecke et al.
Kato Yoshiaki
Osato Kiyoshi
Yamamoto Kenji
Kanane Ronald P.
Rader & Fishman & Grauer, PLLC
Sony Corporation
Tran Thang V.
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